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What started out as a romantic night on the town in downtown Chicago ended in a tragedy when a man fell to his death after climbing a smokestack of a landmark hotel on the Magnificent Mile to take pictures.
The victim, 23-year-old Nicholas Wieme, was killed Thursday morning after falling 22 feet down a scorching chimney at the top of the InterContinental Hotel.
According to firefighters, Wieme, who worked as an improv comedian, climbed onto the dome-shaped roof of the building in the 500 block of Michigan Avenue to take pictures at around 1am,CBS Chicago reported.
He apparently climbed a ladder along a smokestack to the top when he fell into the extremely hot shaft, resulting in severe burns throughout his body.
Wieme then became wedged in an angle of the chimney and was able to send a text message or a voice mail to his girlfriend, asking for help.
However, it was too late. It took a total of about 125 firefighters four hours to reach the 23-year-old, which required cutting a hole in the duct work and sliding him down, according to Fire Chief Michael Fox.

A Danish historian says he has discovered what he believes is a previously unknown fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen.

Retired historian Esben Brage said Thursday he found the six-page text in early October while searching in the National Archives through boxes that had belonged to wealthy families from Andersen's home-town of Odense in central Denmark.

"I was ecstatic. I immediately contacted the curator to tell him about my discovery. I had never imagined this," Brage said.

The handwritten tale, entitled "Tallow Candle," and dedicated to a vicar's widow named Bunkeflod who had lived across from Andersen's home, had been left seemingly untouched at the bottom of one of the boxes.

The short story tells the tale of how a tallow candle seeks help from a tinder box to be able to ignite itself

How about we let this guy be shipped to Amsterdam and let him get raped in a bisexual open-air BDSM club.

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When three puppygirls named after pastries are on top of each other, it is called Eclair a'la menthe et Biscotti aux fraises avec beaucoup de Ricotta sur le dessus.
Most of all, you have to be disciplined and you have to save, even if you hate our current financial system. Because if you don't save, then you're guaranteed to end up with nothing.

"The pod won't have any problems even if there are 1,000-metre-high waves... it's like a ping pong ball, its skin may be thin, but it can withstand a lot of pressure," he told AFP at his workshop in Qiantun, an hour from Beijing.

"More than 25,000 individuals who live in the United States of America took the
time to sign a petition requesting the White House dedicate resources toward
building a Death Star of Star Wars fame by 2016.

"More than 25,000 individuals who live in the United States of America took the
time to sign a petition requesting the White House dedicate resources toward
building a Death Star of Star Wars fame by 2016.

Technically we have a framework for such a weapon in orbit already. We call it "The Moon". It just needs the hardware and support systems for a giant superlaser (or even a large railgun really) and you get a doomsday weapon that could threaten any country on the planet, if not the entire planet (the power needed to crack the Earth into pieces is reportedly greater than the output of our sun, if you can believe the Star Wars tech peoples).

[Johnson said he believed the prosecutor's request of a 16-year sentence was not authorized by law. Johnson sentenced the rapist to six years instead, saying that's what the case was "worth."]

Bet the Tea Party would love him. Can't believe there are such hateful people out there that they would abuse their power and than blame the victim for the rape while letting the rapist off easy.

There is, for lack of a better word, a "rape culture mythology" that infests part of the US. It is intrinsic to a "Taliban" extremist pathological patriarchal faction that is frantic to keep females "in their place".

There is, for lack of a better word, a "rape culture mythology" that infests part of the US. It is intrinsic to a "Taliban" extremist pathological patriarchal faction that is frantic to keep females "in their place".

And I guess than thins place is at home betweem the kitchen and the kids ?

1. Mirinda Kher
Year: 2011
Name: ‘Secret Fantasy Treasure Bra’
Cost: $2.5 million
Description: The undergarment Kher wore last November in Victoria’s secret fashion show was worth 2.5 million dollars. Every year this bra is a jewel-covered show stopper and the 2011 version featured 3,400 gems, including 142 carats of diamonds in addition to pearls, citrines and aquamarines.

Guys, honestly... I know you want the girls to be included together with the bra.

What? In most cases, foreign workers are more expensive than hiring locals due to the government imposed levies in Singapore. Their wages might be lower, but the add-on taxes and benefits makes them more expensive to hire.

We want to hire more locals, but tell me how many local Singaporeans are willing to be construction workers and garbagemen? F&Bs hire crew from China, Phillipines, Malaysia, etc... because the locals don't want it, that or they suck at it more. Our service culture is one of the worst in the region.

Natch.

The avaerage bulldozer operator and environment worker in say...the West or Japan earns a shit load more than what those jobs pay in SG...tell me who wants to work those then?